Dead End, 2008

The video Dead End (2006-2008)is a collaborative work with artist Reuven Zahavi. Zahavi gave motion to the stills I shot while covering the events following the adduction of Gilad Shalit by the Hamas in June 2006. The photographic journeys I undertook on the Gaza border during the Operation Summer Rain led to the creation with Reuven of a series of multimedia projects around the theme of ‘Night and Smoke.’

In Dead End the smoke, emerging from armoured forces and blurring the senses, was perceived as a metaphor for the covering up and the concealing of reality, leaving the individual vulnerable and powerless and without a sense of perspective, prisoner between security concerns and occupation, peace and war slogans but more acutely, lost in a physical and metaphysical existential labyrinth with no beginning and no end.

This Project was exhibited in

Nov 2008

Smoking Utopia # 2

Artist's Residence, Herzliya

Collaborative Solo show with Reuven Zahavi Curator: Varda Genossar Under challenging and critical title, Smoking Utopia, the artists Ariane Littman and Reuven Zahavi present a new joint project following on ...